Re: kernel-module version mismatch

["John H. Robinson, IV" <jhriv@ucsd.edu>]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:48:13PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm writing my first module and when I try to run it I get this error:
> 
> #insmod hello.o
> hello.o: kernel-module version mismatch
>         hello.o was compiled for kernel version 2.2.15
>         while this kernel is version 2.2.18pre21.
> 
> I believe that I need to upgrade linux/module.h and I was wondering what the
> preferred method of doing this was.

/usr/include/linux/module.h correctly refers to the kernel that the
libraries were built against.

if you know where your current kernel headers are, you can include the
path to them with the -I flag

gcc -c hello.c -I/usr/src/linux/include

-john